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--- George Shapovalov <george@g.o> wrote: |
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> sci-mathematics: 34 |
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> Ok size. There were calls to split it into symbolic and numeric, also |
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> -proof was suggested (but I understand the packages for that one are |
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> not in the tree yet). 3-tier categories might be nice here :) (as in |
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> sci-math-symbolic, sci-math-numeric..). devs: |
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> plasmaroo, agriffis?, mattam, cryos, ribosome?, markusle, spock, |
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> phosphan |
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As to the sci-proof suggestion, I have discussed ebuilds with the |
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Isabelle mailing list and they do not seem to be in favor of it. |
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Apparently the work flow for that tool is such that they prefer to |
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maintain everything in a user level directory, as a monolithic whole. |
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I don't know how other projects (HOL, etc.) feel about it. |
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> sci-visualization: 20 |
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> Ok size, may be combined with -calculators? or -math? (herding, if it |
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> makes sense, category should stay), devs: |
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> markusle, phosphan, ribosome, cryos, kugelfang, latexer?, j4rg0n?, |
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> corsair?, spyderous |
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I'd say keep this category, personally. |
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> Furthere, |
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> sci-cad was suggested and it looks like there may be a critical mass |
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> of > 5 packages, but more planning is necessary on this one.. |
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I was able to kludge together a functional brl-cad ebuild, and I know |
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qcad has been in there for ages. Most of the other options will need |
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ebuilds written. Whoever writes the one for SALOME will need to be |
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good. |
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> There were talks about creating sci-physics category, however I |
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> cannot find traces of that atm (or was it on irc?). If there really |
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> are apps for sci-physics it can start combined with sci-astronomy (or |
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> not, need a list of packages..) |
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Physics packages (not all of which may be in gentoo at the moment) |
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mpb (mit photonic bands - does have ebuild) |
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root (in sci-libs, maybe it should stay there?) |
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geant4 http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/ (it can be installed on Gentoo |
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but no ebuild yet) |
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(other stuff from http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/ is probably of |
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interest) |
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http://fermitools.fnal.gov/abstracts/transport/abstract.html |
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http://fermitools.fnal.gov/abstracts/turtle/abstract.html |
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There are other tools of interest here: |
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http://fermitools.fnal.gov/categories/index.html but I suspect many of |
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them have a wider application that just physics |
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Other possibilities: |
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http://www.freehep.org/ - probably a lot that might be included here. |
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http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/paw/ |
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The license is a bit wonky but there is this: |
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http://www.physics.cornell.edu/sss/ |
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Doubtless there are others I am not familiar with. Outside of the HEP |
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world there is less that is free, but oh well. |
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> Any comments on the structure? Also, while sci-xxx is a "natural" |
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> name for the |
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> category (considering our present layout) it is somewhat cumbersome |
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> for the |
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> herd. I guess sci- part may be dropped, then, should the rest stay |
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> spelled |
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> out or people would prefere shortcuts, like math for mathematics, |
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> etc? |
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Personally I would rather keep the sci- prefix, just to keep all the |
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science related software alphabetically together, but I know that's a |
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silly reason. Out of curosity, how is it cumbersome for the herd? |
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Cheers, |
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CY |
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